A new species of self-cloning lizards

Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science has a story on the startling creation of a new species of lizard — a fusion between two whiptail lizards. The members of this new species are tetraploid females that reproduce by parthenogenesis; they’re already in their third generation. The paper is here.

Please, nobody use the DNA of these lizards as a basis for recreating dinosaurs. It would probably cause even more serious problems than frog DNA.